ionic: catch failure from devlink_alloc

Add a check for NULL on the alloc return.  If devlink_alloc() fails and
we try to use devlink_priv() on the NULL return, the kernel gets very
unhappy and panics. With this fix, the driver load will still fail,
but at least it won't panic the kernel.

Fixes: df69ba43217d ("ionic: Add basic framework for IONIC Network device driver")
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
index e6ff757895abbf751da5d9ca56d8a73f898aa40c..4ec66a6be0738c6c429ae83fa9b889d818404d96 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_devlink.c
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ struct ionic *ionic_devlink_alloc(struct device *dev)
        struct devlink *dl;
 
        dl = devlink_alloc(&ionic_dl_ops, sizeof(struct ionic), dev);
+       if (!dl)
+               return NULL;
 
        return devlink_priv(dl);
 }